Bureaucracy slows down support for people with disabilities

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Bureaucracy slows down support for people with disabilities

The requirement of documents in specific formats leaves many out of the federal program CARLOS RUIZ/PORTAVOZ PHOTO: ALEJANDRO LÓPEZ The access to pension for people with disabilities in Tapachula has become an exhausting process, marked by bureaucratic obstacles that complicate the registration to the federal program. Applicants reported that, far from facilitating the procedure, the office of the Welfare Secretariat seems to put unnecessary obs…